Review Consultant

Role: Review Consultant

Salary: £69,663 pro rata

Hours: No more than 15 hours a week

Contract: Temporary until no later than 31 March 2021

The Care Inspectorate has a statutory responsibility to further improvement in the quality of care across social care and social work in Scotland and we do this in partnership with a wide range of organisations. We work across early learning and childcare, integrated health and social care, social work, children’s services, social care, and community justice.

The Care Inspectorate is looking to recruit a Review Consultant to lead a piece of scoping work to understand how staff in care homes learn from significant/adverse events and make improvements to improve outcomes for people experiencing care.

About the role

Reporting directly to the Head of Improvement Support, the postholder will lead the strategic aspects of this work while working closely with the improvement support team in the Care Inspectorate to support a culture of learning and continuous improvement.

The role will chair a national advisory group of key stakeholders as well as mapping existing key review processes. Engagement with local strategic oversight groups such as Local Authorities, HSCPs, IJBs and Chief Officer Group will be key to ensuring that any new learning framework fits into existing frameworks and requirements.

About you

You will be educated to degree level or equivalent and you will also possess a professional qualification in an appropriate discipline. You must provide strong professional leadership and expert consultancy on all aspects of statutory review processes.

You must be self-motivated, confident and be able to work with minimal supervision, possessing excellent oral and written communication skills, with the ability to write detailed reports.

You will also have demonstrable experience and expert knowledge in the following:

§ Social care sector and political environment in which care services for older people are provided, specifically the Care Home sector.

§ Evidence of involvement and impact in work at a Scotland wide level including membership of national working groups.

§ Strong leadership qualities with the ability to think and manage strategically.

§ Understanding of organisational development and culture change.

§ Ability to work in partnership and collaborate with key stakeholders including Scottish Government, LAs, Health Boards and service providers in the statutory, independent and voluntary sector.

§ Successful delivery of large-scale review projects in the private or public sector.

§ Developing delivery strategies, work plans and schedules, required to ensure successful programme delivery.

Next steps

You’ll find more information in the job profile and person specification on our website -https://www.careinspectorate.com/index.php/work-with-us/our-jobs

For an informal discussion, please contact Heather Edwards, Head of Improvement Support on tel: 07795300197.

If you believe that you are a suitable candidate for this post, please download and complete an application form and submit it by email to recruitment@careinspectorate.gov.scot by 8am on Monday 7 December 2020.